Word: metaphor
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...shade too decorous to make a comment like that from any podium more public than a dinner table. His own style is so much more intense, robust, youthful, maybe in the way Falstaff's was and maybe in a more indestructible way that the fifties can only be a metaphor for his condition, not the cause...
Jumping on the Dean and the Faculty for these failures, however, is not quite fair. Sizer is aware of the lack of coordination in the reform movement but feels it's unavoidable. "You don't change universities from the top," says Sizer. "The head is -- to mix a metaphor -- a sort of catalytic traffic cop, giving the nod to some things, stopping others. It's always sloppy and irregular movement on a lot of fronts." Also, for all their shouting last spring, MAT's have been less than hungry for opportunities to work in the field and intern...
...paid, Eugene McCarthy appeared relaxed and unworried while vacationing on the French Riviera last week. In a group with Wife Abigail and one of his chief fund raisers, Wall Street's Howard Stein, he enjoyed his favorite sports-swimming, sunbathing and needling. Said the Senator, weaving a metaphor that he picked up while campaigning in an Illinois textile mill: "Nixon doesn't have woof. Humphrey has lots of woof but no warp...
What Barth is really up to can perhaps best be seen-or rather heard-in Glossolalia. He uses the mystical notion of speaking in tongues as a pointed metaphor in his guerrilla war against static literary forms. More a soothsayer's scripture than prose fiction, the piece mimics the ancient ritual that attempts to divine the truth with spontaneous word patterns and nonsense syllables. Concludes Barth: "The sense-lessest babble, could we ken it, might disclose a dark message, or prayer...
...Suicide Academy is left as a palatial metaphor hardly explored and barely furnished. It is largely unpeopled, too, except for Wolf's assistant, a splendidly grotesque, wasp-tongued Negro named Gilliatt. Archly antiSemitic, he quotes upbeat Talmudic texts to needle Wolf, and continually accuses him of secretly sabotaging the academy's sacred neutrality in favor of life. Gilliatt reasons that the Jews invented resurrection and so are rotten with humanitarian sympathy. Gilliatt may be the best bit-part player of the literary year...